International Dissertation Enhancement: Interactive Effects of Harvest, Grazing and Fire on Plant Populations and Communities in the Western Ghats, India.

国际论文增强：印度西高止山脉收获、放牧和火灾对植物种群和群落的交互影响。

• 批准号: 1104989
• 负责人: Tamara Ticktin
• 金额: $ 0.51万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-01 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1104989&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Dissertation; Enhancement; Interactive; Effects

01104989Ticktin/Lisa MandleThis Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement award provides funding for a final trip to India for coPI Mandle to carry out a suite of additional field measurements for her dissertation research. The focus of the study is the interactive effects of harvest, grazing, and fire on the population dynamics of a harvested palm in a prime biodiversity site in India?s Western Ghats, where human activities strongly impact native plant communities. Although a number of studies of demographic effects of palm leaf-harvest have been done previously, this study breaks new intellectual ground through the application of new statistical population modeling techniques. The combination of multi-site comparative studies with explicit experimental studies will strengthen the coPI?s thesis. Research focused at the nexus between native plant populations and human activities is especially valuable in tropical sites such as the Western Ghats. What is learned in this project could potentially be both practically-applicable locally and a model approach for such research at many types of sites, particularly in the tropics. The broader impacts of this project are strong with respect to the level of cross-interaction between countries, the incorporation of Indian colleagues and local people in the field, as well as its potential to develop new modeling and experimental approaches for plant conservation efforts in the face of significant on-going human activities. This enhancement provides additional funding for international research to a current NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awardee.

01104989 Ticktin/Lisa Mandle这个博士论文增强奖为Copi Mandle的最后一次印度之旅提供资金，为她的论文研究进行一系列额外的实地测量。这项研究的重点是在印度一个主要的生物多样性地点--S西高止山脉，收获、放牧和火灾对收获的棕榈树种群动态的交互影响，那里的人类活动强烈地影响着当地的植物群落。虽然之前已经对棕榈叶收获对人口统计学的影响进行了一些研究，但这项研究通过应用新的统计人口建模技术开辟了新的智力领域。多点比较研究与显性实验研究相结合，将强化S的临摹命题。侧重于本土植物种群和人类活动之间关系的研究在西高止山脉等热带地区特别有价值。从这个项目中学到的东西可能既可以在当地实际应用，也可以作为一种模式方法在许多类型的地点进行这种研究，特别是在热带地区。该项目在以下方面产生了更广泛的影响：国家间的交叉互动程度，印度同事和当地实地人员的参与，以及它在面对重大的人类活动时为植物保护工作开发新的建模和实验方法的潜力。这一改进为目前的NSF研究生研究奖学金获得者提供了额外的国际研究资金。